The Rev. Matthew Southall Brown, pastor emeritus at St. John Baptist Church - “the Mighty Fortress”- on Hartridge Street, has been a regular daily voice on WSOK radio with “Meditative Thoughts” for 21 years.

He now has compiled those thoughts in “The Best of Pastor Matthew South Brown, Sr.’s 6:30 a.m. on Meditative Thoughts”

On Sept. 12, from 5–7 p.m., his friends and family will host a reception and book signing at the Aaron L. Buchsbaum Learning Center of the EOA at 1120 May St.

The book is only the latest from a man who just does not seem to know how to retire.

Brown is immediate past convener for the Berean Association of about 35 local churches and regularly visits pulpits of local church each Sunday.